Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I played it through it came back to me completely , as things do if you have really known them when you are young . |
| 2 | I knew that when I sold it to you . ’ |
| 3 | At the end of the day I thought it looked very attractive , but whether it will catch the eye of a customer when I display it on the craft stall is another matter . |
| 4 | As I say , I only get 36 off the social and when I get it on a Monday , I usually spend 30 right away on food for the kids . |
| 5 | I did erm , mention , I think on one of them which was the erm Tim , this is the upstairs , I did actually mention that when I saw it to Roger . |
| 6 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 7 | When I wore it for seven hours in wind-driven rain , the jacket only started absorbing water after the fourth hour . |
| 8 | When I raised it as Chairman at the General Management Committee , I was disgusted to find that people laughed at the very subject that was so important to women who 've come up here today to let us know the consequences of what was happening . |
| 9 | When I wrote it in 1971 there was a postal strike , so I took it up to the BBC personally . |
| 10 | The essay has since been listed in several bibliographies , and has exerted an influence which , when I composed it as a kind of riposte to the British Council 's purchase of the copyright of that crack-brained idea from its originator , C. K. Ogden , I could not have foreseen . |
| 11 | So I er when I said it to him , on top I made a good job I says . |
| 12 | When I rest it on the table it shudders and then sighs . |
| 13 | ‘ When I took it to the beach it went brrmm , brrmm , up and down the sandhills . ’ |
| 14 | I could n't figure out which were and when the girl er , you know , when , when I took it to the counter she she said , ooh this is good value for four ninety nine ! |
| 15 | But it was n't until a fortnight after the accident , when I took it upon myself to see to the downstairs — particularly the kitchen which was in a state — ready for Auntie 's visit next day , that the riddle was solved . |
| 16 | ‘ And when I make it to the charts , then I 'll have to admit that I will have owed it to the world 's greatest entertainer ever — Elvis the King of Rock . ’ |
| 17 | I asked that when I bought it of course . |
| 18 | That afternoon the wheelbarrow even stuck when I pulled it off the road for a break . |
| 19 | Well I know the the when we had the er I T V , you know , over Christmas it said in there it was on Central but when I turned it on it was n't at all . |
| 20 | When I say it like that I 'm struck by how near that is to Pope 's ‘ What e'er was thought / But ne'er so well expressed ’ definition of poetry . |
| 21 | I made on the deal , but when I switched it on my first thought was : uh-oh . |
| 22 | so Sure Start rang him up and said how 's your car er Mr , he said it 's no better now than when I fetched it to you , three oil changes since and two months since and they said well what you gon na do about it ? |
| 23 | I had worked out a peace formula that I thought might be acceptable , but when I showed it to Wilson he scoffed at it as being altogether too legalistic and proceeded to provide me with a formula of his own . |
| 24 | ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years . |
| 25 | When I rewrote it in Pascal , it took 11 seconds . ) |
| 26 | And why does n't British Rail offer a recycling facility for my old two-inch-thick timetable , when I replace it with the new edition twice each year ? |
| 27 | Oh when I do it for the week I 'm gon na get a twenty five pound voucher for Marks and Spencers . |
| 28 | One of my sisters got quite hysterical when I did it to her , so Mum had to give her a good shaking ! |
| 29 | I got charged when I did it in Newmarket . |
| 30 | This is the particular issue for debate at this meeting , and I do not presume here either to pre-empt discussion or anticipate what I will say later when I consider it in greater detail . |